It’s hard to believe we can finally report this, but surface parking lots are becoming an endangered species in River North.
The latest slab of tar to go bye-bye will be on the northeast corner of West Erie Street and North Sedgwick Street. The project is called Three Sixty | West. Yes, that’s a vertical pipe character in the middle of the name. It’s only slightly more pretentious than design firms that use plus symbols in their names.
Rendering of Three Sixty | West (via Alderman Reilly’s Office)
The condo block was designed by GREC Architects for Belgravia Group, and was outed by 42nd Ward Aldermen Brendan Reilly in an e-mail to constituents. Following the trend of larger, sometimes mixed-generational, families moving downtown, all of the condominiums on offer are three bedrooms. The largest is a penthouse unit measuring 2,645 square feet.
Belgravia isn’t asking the city for a big zoning change from DX-5 to a Planned Development, so this project will dodge most of the city’s bureaucracy. It does, however, have its hand out for a 1.0 Floor Area Ratio bonus, and permission to use the ground floor for parking instead of retail space.
Firehose time:
- Address: 360 West Erie Street
- Developer: Belgravia Group
- Architecture firm: GREC Architects
- Net site area: 15,736 square feet
- Size: 121,273 square feet
- Floors: 11
- Height: A skosh under the zoning maximum of 130 feet (129 feet, 11½ inches)
- Residences: 38
- Automobile parking: 52 spaces
- Bicycle parking: 28 spaces
- Floor Area Ratio: 6.0 (5.0 base + 1.0 bonus)
- Garage access: Via east-west public alley
- Loading docks: One
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- Rendering of Three Sixty | West (via Alderman Reilly’s Office)
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- Rendering of Three Sixty | West (via Alderman Reilly’s Office)
Location: 360 West Erie Street, River North
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